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Sound of Blue

Sound of Blue.

Sound of Blue is wonderful novel penned down by Holly Panye. Much renowned novelist of 'Virgins Knot' took this time a pager journey of refugees. She has beautifully portrayed all character despite being very unknown to them. Such empathic writing is hard to find.

Set in 1992, Sara Foster, American teacher landed up in Hungary to teach english to Croatian refugees. Where she has to teach them english in future and present tenses only. Because past is burn in ashes and nobody finds truth in ashes. Their future lies in new alignments and in new setups.

It's fable of english teacher fall in love with refugee music composer, child in search of his mother, in nutshell refugee in wait to end the war and return home. What destiny brought them  together in the shelter a physical place where they all assembled to be saved from bombing by Yugoslavian aircrafts. People lost their dear ones in the war for some no reasons.

Author has narrated the agony of refugee in some odd three hundred pages. Narration is such spellbinding in nature for readers to flick from one page to other. The surviving pain is beautifully sketched on each and every page. Our lives are so much intertwined with lives of other with fiber of affection. The character of Sara Foster will definitely give you a strength and courage to work in uncertain environment. She taught us the importance of pursuance in much tough times.

One of the last line which I love a lot in this novel is 'refuge was not a place but a condition of human heart'.


Happy Reading!

Faith
Amol Nakve